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My Workflow for Understanding LLM Architectures
A learning-oriented workflow for understanding new open-weight model releases
Many people asked me over the past months to share my workflow for how I come up with the LLM architecture sketches and drawings in my articles, talks, and the L...
Components of A Coding Agent
In this article, I want to cover the overall design of coding agents and agent harnesses: what they are, how they work, and how the different pieces fit together in practice. Readers of my Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) and Bui...
A Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMs
I had originally planned to write about DeepSeek V4. Since it still hasn’t been released, I used the time to work on something that had been on my list for a while, namely, collecting, organizing, and refining the different LLM architecture...
A Dream of Spring for Open-Weight LLMs: 10 Architectures from Jan-Feb 2026
If you have struggled a bit to keep up with open-weight model releases this month, this article should catch you up on the main themes.
In this article, I will walk you through the ten main releases in chronological order, with a focus on...
Categories of Inference-Time Scaling for Improved LLM Reasoning
And an Overview of Recent Inference-Scaling Papers
Inference scaling has become one of the most effective ways to improve answer quality and accuracy in deployed LLMs.
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I'm an LLM research engineer 10+ years of experience in artificial intelligence. My expertise lies in AI & LLM research focusing on code-driven implementations. I am also the author of "Build a Large Language Model From Scratch" (amzn.to/4fqvn0D).
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